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The Senate roundly rejected a proposal Wednesday to redirect aid for Egypt
into bridge-building projects in the U.S. after a potential Republican presidential
candidate and tea party favorite challenged the Obama administration's refusal
to label the ouster of Egypt's president a military coup.Sen. Rand Paul
of Kentucky's amendment to next year's transportation bill would have halted
the $1.5 billion in mainly military assistance the U.S. provides Egypt each
year.He cited the U.S. law banning most forms of support for countries
that suffer a military "coup," a determination the administration has said
it won't make about the Egyptian army's July 3 ouster of the
Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. And he invoked U.S. infrastructure shortcomings
as well as Detroit's bankruptcy and Chicago's violence to make his case
for the money to be put back into the domestic economy."Our nation's
bridges are crumbling," said Paul, who has previously failed in attempts
to cut U.S. support programs for Egypt, Libya and Pakistan. "I propose
that we take the billion dollars that is now being illegally given
to Egypt and spend it at home."The Senate voted 86-13 against the
measure, the first to be proposed in either chamber of Congress since
the army arrested Morsi, suspended the constitution and cracked down on
the Muslim Brotherhood. A series of deadly protests have taken place since
in what was once Washington's strongest ally in the Muslim world, but
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for gridlock, the tickertape running through their minds will be telling
them a different story Real Clear Politics Presidential Job Approval Average:
44.9 percent; Second Quarter GDP growth: 1.7 percent; Obamacare average
approval : 39.7 percent; Democracy Corps Generic Congressional Ballot: GOP
+1 percent ; Georgia seeks Obamacare exemption citing premium explosion;
etc.For example, while the president is talking, a caravan of West Virginia
Democrats will be making the rounds on the Hill pleading with their
fellow Democrats to help them block Obamas coal crackdown. Meantime, Democratic
union boosters are begging for relief from Obamas health law. Across the
way, civil libertarians are agonizing over Obamas amazing expansion of domestic
surveillance. And all the while, Republicans are finding new ways to highlight
abuses at the IRS and tie them to Obamas unpopular health law.With
history suggesting and polls showing big trouble for Democrats next year,
Obamas call for radical inaction will not find many fans among the
remaining moderate Democrats. Obama is selling the same thing to Democrats
that Rand Paul and others are selling to Republicans: lay out your
principles, jump off the cliff and then take your case to voters.As
Ron Fournier describes it today at National Journal, calling it White Flag
Syndrome: To say the situation is intractable seems akin to waving a
white flag over a polarized capital: Republicans suck. We can't deal wit
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hospitals. We should be able to build a hospital, especially when we
have people coming home from war and they've got all kinds of
problems, from psychological to missing body parts.The project's general
contractor, Kiewit-Turner, blames the VA in a complaint filed with the Civilian
Board of Contract Appeals. It says the VA has changed the design
of the facility numerous times and that those changes have been, "...increasingly
complex, included fewer cost reductions than expected, significantly increased
the scope of the work, and made the budget problem worse rather
than better."Kiewit-Turner, which says its profit margin has long since
disappeared, is now projecting a 2016 opening with a total cost of
$1 billion. It says if the VA doesnt accept the increase, it
wants out.It's going through a legal dispute resolution administratively
between the contractor and the Veterans Administration," explains Coffman.
"They (Kiewit-Turner) say that either there is going to be a realization
that the true costs are going to be paid for the facility
(or) they want to quit the project."If the general contractor were allowed
to quit, the project could effectively come to a halt."So meantime," columnist
Lewis points out, "we've got wars winding down all over the world
and there are people coming home and I don't think they're being
properly serviced by any of these medical centers. What are we telling
people in the future about military service wh
Rosoboronexport nevertheless appears to be Syria's main weapons supplier,
questioning how the company tracks how its weapons are being used.The Pentagon
contract comes at a vital time, as the Obama administration steps up
its support for the anti-Assad opposition by pledging to provide small arms
to certain opposition groups. The contract potentially puts the U.S. government
in the uncomfortable position of funding a company that is aiding the
other side of that civil war.Despite Russia's claims, a Pentagon official
wrote a letter to Cornyn in March 2012 that acknowledged "evidence" that
Rosoboronexport's arms "are being used by Syrian forces against Syria's
civilian population."
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